J. S. MILL AS A METHODOLOGIST OF SOCIOLOGICAL COGNITION

UDC 316.22

Podruchny Mikhail Viktorovich – Senior Lecturer, the Department of Philosophy and Law. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: pmichail720@gmail.com

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-287-19.

Key words: J. S. Mill, positivism, cognitive sociology, inductivism, individualism, ethology, social action.

For citation: Podruchny M. V. J. S. Mill as a methodologist of sociological cognition. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2024, no. 2 (287), pp. 101–105 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-287-19.

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of the formation of the subject and method of sociology as an independent science and the role of J.S. Mill's positivist philosophy in this process. As a logician and methodologist, Mill takes part in disputes about the ontological and epistemological status of the subject of socio-humanitarian cognition. The article discusses the provisions of Mill's inductive logic, which become fundamental principles of the methodology of cognitive social science and the critique of sociological objectivism. The paper attempts to review modern approaches to analyzing the role of philosophical positivism in the discussion of cognitive aspects of sociological cognition. The article provides an overview of modern approaches to analyzing the role of philosophical positivism in the discussion of cognitive aspects of sociological cognition. In particular, the article reveals the worldview foundations of inductivistic methodology of socio-humanistic cognition, reveals the main principles of the ideology of individualism and systematizes their methodological implication. The author pays special attention to the extramural polemics between the representatives of antipsychologism (K. R. Popper, K. Marx) in sociology and the supporters of the Mille’s interpretation of the philosophical foundations of social and humanitarian cognition. Sociology's self-definition as a behavioral science of man requires explicit or latent postulation of a model of human subjectivity and, as a consequence, allows for the presence of psychological psychological factors among those that determine collective phenomena of behavior.

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